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Hwabyeong/Hwabyung culture bound syndrome; ethnography, linguistics
Topic Started: Jan 11 2011, 09:38:36 PM (1,909 Views)
black man
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Reading Hwabyung in Korea: Culture and Dynamic Analysis by Sung Kil Min first of all made me wonder what Koreans define as "anger" (or the according approximate equivalent/s of it in Korean language). The according mood described by the author is haan. So: what makes haan different from anger?

As usual, "Confucianism" is blamed the same way the Koran etc are blamed (and commended) for things which don't have anything to do with them. But maybe the origins of hwabyung reach further back into the past. As you know, Korean culture is somewhat antithetic to Buddhism since it allows Koreans to experience cathartic effects on more than one occasion:
- kut/goot ("shamanic" ritual)
- social alcohol consumption
- soap operas
...

Thus, I find it quite plausible that hwabyung could be a relic of something like hamatsa initiation in northwestern coastal America, one crucial difference being that the person who suffers from hwabyung won't get any comparable initiation.
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polyhedron
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I thought it was 和平文化 and totally confused that I thought 和平文化 (Hoà Bình culture) is in Vietnam rather than in Korea. And only when I open the pdf I saw it is 火病 (fire disease), and there's a colon ":" before the "Culture"...
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Ebizur
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Korean 화 hwa, which is sometimes associated with the Chinese character for "fire" (火), is a colloquial Korean word for "anger, fury." A Korean synonym for this hwa would be 부아 bua < 부하 buha < 부화 buhwa "lung; anger, fury." Korean also has 허파 heopa for "lung," but this latter word does not share the emotional sense of bua.

Korean 한 han, which Sung Kil Min has transcribed as haan, is the Korean pronunciation of the Chinese word 恨 hèn "hate; regret."
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ren
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polyhedron
Jan 15 2011, 04:05:26 AM
I thought it was 和平文化 and totally confused that I thought 和平文化 (Hoà Bình culture) is in Vietnam rather than in Korea. And only when I open the pdf I saw it is 火病 (fire disease), and there's a colon ":" before the "Culture"...
Are you looking for something on the Hoabinhian Culture of SE Asia? Does this have to do with the origin of mtDNA lineage M9?
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black man
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17009363
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Hwabyeong in a modern religious diguise?
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